Student Affairs Administration, MASTER OF EDUCATION

The Springfield College Student Affairs Administration master's program provides the academic knowledge, and practical experience to best prepare you to excel in the student affairs field.

Our program focuses on developing robust professional leadership skills for the 21st century and beyond, including advising, management, counselling, and supervision. You will be prepared to engage, educate, and improve the lives of college students.

We commit to excellence grounded in the institutional mission of educating the whole student in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others. Springfield College has a small campus's intimacy, but with the access to gain experience at larger institutions and community colleges in the nearby vicinity.

The seminar-style courses allow you to individualize course assignments and link course concepts to your unique career goals. We view learning as an ongoing practice and professional development, not past performance, so we continuously invite students to be authentic and engage in honest, open dialogue about real-world issues that student affairs practitioners face.

Graduates of this program have gone on to work in a wide range of student affairs functional areas, including residence life, student activities, multicultural affairs, career services, recreation and wellness, and academic advising, and at every type of institution throughout the United States and beyond.

Fieldwork is an essential component of the Student Affairs Administration program. You will complete a minimum of two different three-credit fieldwork experiences based on your own career goals. As part of your fieldwork, you will be supervised by an experienced professional in the field and attend seminar sessions throughout the semester taught by a student affairs administration faculty member.

Springfield College is an independent, nonprofit, coeducational institution. Springfield College has a long and distinguished history of service to humanity through its students' education—in spirit, mind, and body. For almost 130 years, nationally and internationally recognized faculty members have been preparing students for leadership in our communities—in schools, in hospitals, in business, and on fields of sport—in the United States and around the world.

The College offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in health sciences, human and social services, sport management and movement studies, education, business, and the arts and sciences. It also offers doctoral programs in physical education, physical therapy, and counseling psychology.

Through academic scholarship and a vibrant athletics culture, Springfield College students are well rounded, whole, balanced individuals who are at the top of their games, no matter their forum. And these exemplary students have selected Springfield College—in most cases as their first choice—because we are committed to graduating students who will change the world. Springfield College is consistently ranked among the best universities and as an institution that leads to graduate school for many of its students.

We focus on helping students develop the whole person so they can serve as leaders in their communities, organizations, companies–wherever their next steps take them.

The mission of Springfield College is to educate the whole person in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others.